From Flying Kiwis.
Ben Waine:
“I think I've been lucky. I've been involved with some really big games. My first league game was Bolton, then I played in Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich. I've been chucked in at the deep end, but don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want it any other way. It really kind of opened my eyes to what football's like over here and the standard of the top [League One] teams and decent championship teams would be like.
I always knew it was going to be a challenge; don't get me wrong about that. Regardless of where you play, there's always going to be ups and downs. Up until about two weeks ago, I don't think I'd settled in completely, but now I’ve moved into my apartment, and I think it's now just getting into the normal rhythm of things.
When I first arrived, everything was like a hundred miles. You're constantly on cloud nine with everything going on and everything being new, you kind of forget about everything in the background. Now I've kind of started to settle in, it’s not that I'm on a low or anything like that, but everything's slowed down a little bit more. It’s now not putting too much pressure on myself; I need to understand that it's going to take time for myself as well. I’m in a better place than I was before and I'm ready to kick on.”